In this role Kuehl, who joins Nissan from Volkswagen, will be responsible for both Nissan and Datsun brands and will head all operations in India including Marketing and Sales, Manufacturing and Research and Development.

The Alliance was created to accommodate new projects of mutual benefit to Renault and Nissan, and later on, projects with other partners worldwide. It is based on cross-shareholding and mutual self-interest in which the partners maximise synergies without impacting on brand identity.

Nissan Motor also appointed Peyman Kargar as Senior Vice President and Chairman, and Kalyana Sivagnanam as Regional Vice President, Marketing and Sales for its Africa, Middle East and India (AMI) region, informed the automaker in a statement.

It is mandatory for vehicles to have third party insurance while insurance for own damage is optional. In comprehensive insurance policies, which have both components, the share of third party insurance is barely 30%.

After two rather unsuccessful previous attempts at luring Indian markets with the Go and Go+, Datsun launched its Redi-GO at a price of Rs 2.39 lakh for the base model, among five different variants.
The small car is based on the same CMF-A platform as its Renault cousin, Kwid and has sold 18,566 units in totality.

From the period between April to October of the current financial year, the company recorded overall growth of 54 per cent at 35,147 units compared to 22,180 units sold in the same period of last year, making it one of the fastest growing automobile companies’ in the passenger vehicle segment.

Dheeraj Hinduja, chairman at India’s second largest truck maker Ashok Leyland, prefers a low profile, but with managing director Vinod Dasari leaving at the end of the month, he says he’s become more “hands-on”.